Why We Drive On Weekends

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We've been busy for the past few weeks because we are focusing on our California fleet. We have received a lot of questions but we decid...

We've been busy for the past few weeks because we are focusing on our California fleet. We have received a lot of questions but we decided to remain silent till we get back on our track for Uber Manila.

As of the moment, we know what is happening there are a lot of apprehensions and there are also some crazy odd/even schemes on some cities which did have a large effect on the business. Honestly, even our drivers are now complaining about the odd/even as it had reduced our income for at least 3% for a week and this is really a big hunch.

We instructed our drivers to hold on while we are creating a strategy that can at least sustain our expenses and maintain their income but one of our drivers had suggested since the current incentives is for a weekday and weekend promotion that we should at least target the weekend promo instead.

Why We Drive on Weekends For Uber Manila

Honestly when we saw the weekend promotion, we were talking about it and saying that "is this really doable?" imagine 70 trips within 3 days? but upon testing it out, it is but still on a margin that you as a driver should sacrifice a lot of your time for your family.

We did try it and here's what we did. We let our drivers rest during the weekdays and let them drive all out on the weekends. The amount of trips they accumulated or completed is just the same as when they are driving on weekdays but without the pure hassle, below are few of the reasons why we decided to drive just on weekends now that the whole week.

1. There's no odd/even schemes

We can freely focus on completing the required trips on weekends (Saturday and Sunday) because there's no odd/even schemes unlike on weekdays (Mon-Fri) which is a really big pain in the ass.

2. Trips are much faster compared to weekdays.

Our data shows that you can complete a trip within 10-15 mins the shortest compared to a weekday's 1hr to 1hr and 30 mins.

3. There's no apprehension

90% of the time we feel safe to drive on weekends because simply there's no apprehension. We are safe and we can focus on our goals.

4. There's no major traffic on weekends

Well that's one of the perks when driving on weekends. There's no major traffic like rush hour compared to weekdays.

So what about you guys? Are you also driving on weekends or just the weekdays?

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